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mircea_popescu: mike_c if you're really paranoid you can locally generate and sign pushes after each stat.
mircea_popescu: well ideally i should hope not, or else wtf, "which pill would you like to take today, mr j"
mircea_popescu: imagine if hospitals were run on the principle of whether the customer was happy.
mircea_popescu: happens to be the correct line to hold, so... whatever, they'll have to get it out of my cold dead hands.
mircea_popescu: rs cloud services that many startups rely on to host their data. My startup, Droplr, is completely based on Amazon’s stack, from using EC2 servers where we host all of our technology to S3, which we use for file storage. This attacker had access to all of it. I was extremely lucky that in his rush to gain access to @jb, he didn’t think to check if my account had anything under AWS.
mircea_popescu: The scary thing was that I only thought of the true implications of this attack days later. As I was contemplating what had happened and how I could prevent it in the future, a very frightening thought occurred to me. This attacker started with Amazon because he knew that a commerce shopping site’s customer support would be relatively easy to convince and use to gain access to my account. However, that same site offe
mircea_popescu: this has a lot of implications for noob bitcoin devs btw
mircea_popescu: i dun recall who originally posted that coupla days back
mircea_popescu: "could we have the last 4 digits of your address which is also your private key ? don't worry, we'll keep the rest secret nothing could possibly go wrong"
mircea_popescu: the future of cryptography as seen @nsa, microsoft, etc : rot13 chain!
mircea_popescu: then go "o oops, what you mean we said we'll turn off miners ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: instead of ppl ordering ? they napkin-doodle what they want
mircea_popescu: you can dumb the genblock just by quering the altcoind
mircea_popescu: tbh i'd be very surprised if in fact he's scamming you.
mircea_popescu: this guy's premise is that some dood's systematically whoring his family, and the only way he can think to introduce that premise is a Mr Exposition chorus ?!
mircea_popescu: "That's a good girl. I love your enthusiasm. You made Daddy so proud when you came to me on your 18th Birthday a few weeks ago and said you wanted to work at my whorehouse just like your mother and your older sisters.
mircea_popescu: "Oh yes, Daddy! I can't wait to find out what you're going to do to me today!"
mircea_popescu: "Well good morning there, Brittany. Are you ready for today's lesson?"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i say a lot of power, i mean a lot of power >D
mircea_popescu: the only begotten altchain of teh lord to save our etc
mircea_popescu: but i actually own -1, cause i owe 1 to either mike_c or vexual
mircea_popescu: because you got 0 right ? and so do all those other guys
mircea_popescu: check this out tat : i am the one guy in the entire world who owns THE LEAST ATC.
mircea_popescu: we're not actually pushing it, we're just lolling at it, observing it, thinking about it outloud.
mircea_popescu: anyway, straight man story : ThickAsThieves started a new altchain. for absolutely no reason. called a lark.
mircea_popescu: just not lieing and not stealing, that's it. that's all. you don't even need an idea AT ALL. your chain can simply win because no premine and no schmooze.
mircea_popescu: 't like its tits publicly handling it can go ahead and dress.
mircea_popescu: chetty gubermint has no right to have tits, nor does it have the right to use its tits as an excuse to bother people.
mircea_popescu: who gave obama a monopoly on the land between x and y ?
mircea_popescu: chetty people do have a right to go wherever the fuck they please.
mircea_popescu: actually should i dig up the old discussion of that or were you around ?
mircea_popescu: KRS- money laundering is an impossible conviction to get against the actual people who launder money, ie banks. any conviction is extremely easy to get against a redditard kid from brooklin and his goretex wearing father.
mircea_popescu: KRS- local joke : gypsy woman goes to her man with a very very filthy kid in tow
mircea_popescu: "gee son, i hope all that pot herping you did was a lot of fun"